Fuck micro stakes

Took some leftover rakeback and starting playing micro CAP games on FTP to limit my risk of ruin. The funny thing is I found it to be one of the most relaxing ways to play poker, short of getting high (k2o is progressively perking my interest in this). As a loose aggressive player I tend to see a lot of bad beats just from playing so many pots, at least at small stakes games. I feel I'm pretty good at hand reading, although not so great at playing postflop, such as when to value bet and when to not. My sessions usually result in winning lots of small-medium pots, and then losing one huge one to set me all the way back. The beauty of these micro cap games is that fish are still playing them like normal poker, none of that SS strategy you see at higher cap games. This is great because I can get reasonable value from all my 60/40 hands the way I should, and win pot after pot after pot. When that suckout comes around the corner the most I can ever lose is 30BB's. Fuck you variance, how ya gonna get me now? Even if I lost 5 hands in a row I'd probably just end breakeven. If I lose 5 hands in an uncapped game I'm probably in the deep red. Sure I miss out on value, but only from hands I'm likely to make 2% of the time anyway. For all you regs im sure that 2% makes up for all the losses in between. If you lose 180BB's over 400 hands but win 200BB in one glorious moment then you're ahead. Well problem for me is I dont play long enough to reach those pivotal moments. I quite enjoy battling players one at a time through leisurely play until im satisfied and choose to quit. There's also some sick sick fish at the high stakes cap games who just like the thought of playing 5/10, so it doesnt hurt to get used to it and craft my own theories for optimal play as I get there.

Ultimately though, it's simply +EV for me as a person to play these. It really doesnt bother me at all to lose AJs aipf to K9s for 30BB's as it would for 100 which happens quite often. I wish it didnt bother me at regular NL either, but thats another lesson I have yet to learn.

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Yeah thats right, I got colluded against in an online game of team fortress. lol. They introduced this dueling system whereby you can challenge other people to a duel in-game, and whoever kills the other the most wins. You get this wearable badge with a track record of your progress that everyone can see. Of course being the good player than I am I accept any and all duels, and only challenge opponents at the top of the scoreboard.

So some random player insta-challenges me as soon as I join the game which I thought was weird, maybe he knew me or something. I accept, and start pwning his ass 2-0, but noticed it was pretty damn difficult to accomplish. Then he starts getting kills on me, and im like "fuck this guy is pretty good... *respect*". Then I run up on him again and all the sudden he's in uber mode which makes him invincible. I haul ass and survive, find him a minute later, and he ubers again. Then it dawns on me, this punk mother fucker has a pocket medic following him around. Thats why it was so damn hard to kill him the first 2 times. As I continue to seek him out, there's his little bitch boyfriend medic by his side keeping him alive time and time again. By the time I realized I was being set up he had overtaken my lead 3-2.

The match ended and I lost my perfect 15-0 record. Then what do I behold? He snap challenges someone else, someone who was like 8th on the board, a random player like a pyro or something, totally worthless. This fucking cuntbag is running around the server issuing duels against people and then stacking a medic against them to inflate his shitty little dueling record. No fucking class. I think I'm just gonna delete my badge and try to start over.

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Just trying to play a little rush at the office, tethering my cellphone to my pc to hide my tracks, and I cant get more than 5 fucking hands in before some cunt starts crying that her PDF isnt printing, or that the print quality is faded, or that the projector wont turn on, or that the scanner isnt scanning, or someone just wants to talk about how cool wifi is and that the shingles on their goddamn roof reduce cellphone reception. FUCK ALL YOU BITCHES!!!1

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The following is Matt Damon's first hand we see vs KGB if it were played online. Just seeing it all laid out like this had me in tears for a solid 5 minutes.

$25/50 NLHE 500BB min
4 players

UTG folds
Hero raises to $500
SB folds
BB calls $450

Flop: (Pot $1,025)



BB checks
Hero bets $2,000
BB calls $2,000

Turn: (Pot $5,025)



BB checks
Hero checks

River: (Pot $5,025)



BB bets $15,000
Hero requests TIME
Hero raises to $48,000 and is ALL IN
BB calls, slow rolls, shows
Hero mucks
BB wins $101,025

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I saw a video not too long ago whereby Ivey loses 2nd in chips at the FT of some WPT or EPT event. He gets it allin with AA or something, as a huge favorite. Potential 2 million dollars lay before his eyes. Then what did he do? He did nothing. He didnt run around the table hooting and hollering saying "one time! one time!". He didnt stand up and watch the cards get dealt. He didnt go to the rail to hold his buddies. He just sat there and let poker do its thing. He loses to a 2 outer. And his very next move, after being horribly sucked out on, was to simply shake hands, get up, collect his things, and leave. Either it didnt bother him, or he didnt let it bother him.

I want to be like Ivey. Just got back from another unbeatable table of fish. 3 BI's gone. Standard 90/10 coinflipping. I can only get it in ahead so many times. If this happened online shit would be breaking. Probably be out another monitor. Thank god it was live and the 20 minute drive home gave me time to cool off. I'm still on the verge of snapping. One wrong move and I'll lose it. Anyway, I am flat out done with playing in fishy games, just too much variance. At least fishy ring games where donkeys can threaten my entire stack. Gonna investigate the CAP scene, or maybe the 50BB tables, just anything where some fish cant quintouple up and then stack me for 100BB's randomly clicking buttons.

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I'm drunk now.

NL50 live, bad bead whine blog. KK w < Q9o on T85sss, I have king spade, he has Queen spade. Runner runner 2 pair suckout entire stack.

Reload.

Im in BB with K4o, utg limps. Flop K43. Allin for entire stack on flop. Turn 5, river 5, i lose to K6o. I'm like -4000 across live/online to this shit. Fish are so awesome, I always want them at my table, so much profit here always losing to suckouts. This is how high stakes players make their living, playing vs calling stations. every NL1k player's bottom line comes from this, make their millions vs fish, not vs regs whom they can read and outplay, but to fish, yea sure.

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Back when I was playing live NL200 earlier this week I stumbled across my first real exploitable tell. On 4 separate occasions I had villains betting like $12 into $80 pots. Now I assumed this was partly because they dont really keep track of the pot size so they're just firing out some minuscule bet based on the strength of their hand because it makes them feel good.

And then I was like fuck that. I made what would be my normal river value bet of like $60, and they folded. I really began paying attention to their bet sizes on every street, and noticed all too often they were simply making really inappropriate bets, usually half pot or less. I never noticed this before because when I'm in a pot it's because I raised, and therefore they all just call and "check to the raiser". So I just started raising any bet postflop regardless of my hand if I deemed it "unworthy". $30 pot and you bet $7? Raise. And just like that I stole it every time.

Sample size is like 10 hands but I feel good about this. My only concern goes back to what I first mentioned, that they arent really paying attention to the pot size, therefore their betsize has little to do with it. But seriously, when theres a mountain of red chips you should be able to fucking guesstimate whats in there, theres no excuse for these ridiculously small bets they keep making.

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A few hours into the night playing NL50 live everyone decides they want to play a $10 rebuy + 1 addon SNG. I'm already tilted after getting 1 outered AA vs A3 (someone showed the case 3) and "flipping" AKo vs JTo aipf, so I oblige. I've played SNG's before, and have a basic grasp of push/fold mode, stealing blinds, pounding short stacks, etc. But what is this? Suddenly, the people calling 6BB raises in our cash game with hands like 82s and whatever the fuck, have all become a bunch of tamed timid little monkies. Awww, im sorry, does the threat of busting out suddenly influence your decisions my pet? Are you short already by level 3 because you limp folded half your stack away and now even a basic preflop raise puts you to a decision for all your chips?

Wow, these fucknuts suddenly went from being the loosest donks in the history of poker to the tightest nits you've ever seen. And when they finally do decide to get it in, the 30/70 flip they're being offered holds and they bust. Or they're a favorite and lose to variance. I'm liking this. Thats the one thing I always did like about tourney's, letting donks knock each other out for you, and improving your EQ as a result of them dropping out. One less idiot to contend with.

I win the first one for $100 1st place, "fuck yea". I got it in bad a couple of times BvB, but with some sick luck outdrew my opponents. They played it terribly anyway. Flatting A6o in the BB, flopping TP, and waiting till the turn to stack off. GTFO. We play a few more that I bust from and then the game goes back to cash. BOOM, here come the suckouts. I get felted AQs vs 73s. I'm having a pretty hard time holding it together and not just lashing out at everyone, so he says (and I shit you not) "theres a method to the madness man. I was dealt this exact same hand my previous hand. 73dd twice in a row? I had to call" Just like fucking that. Naturally flop came 797 for him.

Soooooooo... maybe I'll stick my head in a few more low stakes SNG's. I always hated the concept of playing for an hour just to win $0, but I fucking love using my edge to just completely fuck up their ability to play, and letting other players do some of the work for me at the same time.

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So now that I squandered my roll for NL200 im going back to NL50 live. Looking for advice on most optimal way to play again, as I'm still not sure I've really figured it out.

I used to approach the game playing like I would online. If I'm first to enter the pot, it better be with a raise. PP's/AT+/KJ+. Raise CO with 45s+. Raise button with Ax, Kxs sometimes, some semi-connectors etc etc. This seemed to be a recipe for mega fail. Too many callers, always OOP, no way to isolate and exploit.

My adjustments were to only raise AT+ and TT+. Everything else was a limp. I'd often limp utg with 78s and 88 for instance, other times I might just fold a suited connector. The idea being to see flops as cheaply as possible, hit, & get paid off. No need to balance my range. This seemed to work overall, although I'm not sure it really worked that well.

Biggest problem comes from the whole pot odds thing. For an NL50 game people are still routinely raising 6-8BB's preflop. Thats $3+ at an NL50 game. I assume they are just protecting their hands with somewhat premium holdings, but I see a lot of bullshit too. Is it really +EV for them to raise $4 with 77 in a 5way limped pot? Or $3 utg with QJs? I feel like I'm sorta priced out of calling with anything. Unless I can 3bet, I should just fold given the price.

Since I'm still a little tilted from last nights horrendous session, I think I need to start back with the basics. Remember this is live, so people are playing about half the deck. Any suited cards, any ace, any connectors, and any semi-connectors.

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anyone wanna take a guess?

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